Too many of these Pierson Hood cases have failed in the courts. If the prosecution cannot bring their case in five years, then the judge made the right call. Either these cases were not properly investigated or were not properly prosecuted as too many of these "gang members" have been released. Five years is too long to wait for a trial!

many years ago the Flint fire and police agreed not to have the city pay into FICA (social security) in return for retiree healthcare. Brown wants to invalidate that agreement, but officers still don't get social security.

fedupinflint-You need to read the state finance board report. It was walling who used the water and sewer funds like a slush fund! The council was once asked and any money used by Williamson was properly set up as inter departmental loans and repaid with interest, as required by state law.

The deficits started with the foreclosure debacle and the population exodus that state wide impacted the revenue funding. Add to that the fact that the state has broken their decadses old commitments for federal revenue sharing dollars that were a primary source of revenue sharing dollars.

Look at the administrations prior to the Don that gave early retirements and even as much as five free years to retire early. Some retirees ended up with retirements that were higher than their wages. These retirees had healthcare for life for themselves and their spouses. Retiring young leaves a tremendous legacy cost as related to health care that the City has been unable to pay for years.

This is another backroom deal! Jones resigned from Ann Arbor by e-mail with no advance warning and stunned his former bosses. He has a 40 year history with lots of jobs, so he doesn't appear to stay put for long.
He left Ann Arbor, efffective April 1, 2012 and according to Brown, he has been volunteering for Flint by helping Brown negotiate a public safety plan with the Governor's office and the State Police.
Brown and his wife are said to be close friends of the Locks, so we are saddled with Lock and his high salary as well as the new Public Safety Director. Lock needs to go as it has been demonstrated that he is unequipped for the job.
Tom McCabe failed at the last job Brown gave him, but he is back. Attorney Kendal Williams is said to be reviewing all of the Flint contracts. We cut employee salaries so Brown can employ his cronies.

A friend called builsing and safety in Flint requsting that a house be boarded up. She was informed that as of today that unit was laid off and they indicated the demolition crew may be lai off too. Outsourcing denolition may slow the process down and as Mike doesn't ask for bids, he can hire friends.

I am tired of people playing the "blame the victim" game when it concerns Trayvon Martin. Is valtwin saying Martin's life did not count because he was allegedly a bad person. What matters is what happened on the evening he died. had Zimmerman not profiled and stalked Martin the shooting would not have occurred. Even at the press conference, Rev. Al Sharpton and the family noted this was only one step towards justice for Trayvon. In this community where the crime was committed an individual pursued and killed a suspected burgular and it was ruled justified. Justice may not occur in this case.

The Land Bank works with the city of Flint to demolish homes. In the past, Flint used MSHDA money in order to help the Land Bank reduce the costs of demolition. With Flint crews performing the demolition jobs, each house or batch of houses did not need to be bid out.

I don't know what Gleckman is smoking, but he needs to quit! the Genesee Institute, initiated by kildee, published at least one report that many of the cheaply built homes meant to accomadate the growth of the suto industry had scant redemptive quality.

Kildee gutted several homes and called them "habs" instead of rehabs, because they were down to the basic structure. The cost of many of these rehabs being done in Flint are now being questioned by HUD as the costs are excessive. Rehabbed homes by Salem Housing have been on the market for years. HUD had a finding for Flint because salem Housing was unable to sell their homes through a lease-purchase arrangement and Flint was required to redo the grant. Some of these rehabbed homes were vandalized to the point they were no longer viable housing options.

In the Smith Village area rehabs that were limited to $55,000 had up to $120,000 spent on them and they still did not look livable.

Can the Land bank even sell these homes for the amount of money invested in them? I am amazed everyday at how cheap Flint homes are selling.

Flint police Operations posts many 911 calls from Party Stores asking that drug dealers and loiterers outside their stores be removed. The police won't deal with this issue and a security guard is as vulnerable as the store owners.